Daily Republican., 1887-07-21
NEWS SUM MARY

NEWNSU M HAIRY
The OIL city Traeedy-Harvey's Big
Sentence-Shot Dead-vsssels seized-
Train To escoped.
At OIL City, Pa, on Tuesday night,
John McNierney, being drunk, beat his
wife to death, fatally shot his son John,
aged IL years. for interfering in behalf
OF his mother, and fatally wounded .
po. o.iceman named James, who tried to
arrest the murderer. Two other police.
men succeeded In capturing McNier.
ney, after wouuding him in the back.
Oscar J. Harvey, the Treasury DE-.
partmept forger, was arraiRned in the
Criminal Court at Washington on
Wednesday afternoon and pleaded
guilty TO the indictment. He was SEN
fenced by Judge Montgomery to twelve
years imprisonment ct hard labor In
the Albany Penitentiary-three years
on each count Of the indictment.
A. telegram was received At the Trea.
sury department Wednesday from Cap
tain Sheppard, commanding the reve.
nue. steamer Rush, dated at Ounala lasks,
July B, confirming the press dispatches 8
in regard to the seizure OF the British
steam schooner Annie Beck aud the
Au ertcau schooner Challenge for illegal
sealing.
A passenger train on the Atlantic and
Pacific railroad ran into the rear Of q
freight train near Peach Springs, Ari
zona, on Monday night An engine
and several cars were wrecked. Edward
Becker. fireman, was killed, and another
train hand and several passengers were
injured, but not dangerously.
h. d. Merrill, one of the operators in
Chicago who suffered from the heat
deal" of q month ago, Wednesda
brought suit against o. j. Kershaw s.
Co. for $4,000 damages for failure on
the part OF the firm to keep its contract.
A similar sutt has been brought by M.
j. Wright for 1900.
An unmarried woman, named r ,ss,
has been arrested At Caraquet, New
Brunswick, for ipfantici0e. 1t ia
charged that she murdered her infant
by forcing a spoon down its throat 1.
Is suspected that she killed her two
other children, who died a short time
ago.
One bundled and twenty-five OF the
horses OF the Third Avenue Gar Com
pany In New York have been poisoned
by cyanide of potassium. Twenty
nine Of them have died. and others are
sick. II is said there is evidence that
the poisoning WAS intentionsl.
A man supposed to be Albert Cook,
who murdered his mother IL law ard
wife, at Champion, Illinois. in October,
1885, has been arrested at Minneapolis.
Previous TO the tragedy Cook and his
wife had separated several times on &C.
count Of his Jealousy.
=. L Harper, Vice President Of the
Fidelity National Bank of Cincinnati,
was taken to Dayton on Tuesday even.
ing aud locked up in one OF the prison
cells. His companions In the ward are
another United States prisoner and
three notorious thieves.
While Postmaster Burgoine, OF Ma
hone Bay, Nova Scotia, was making
change for stranger yesterday morn.
ing, the man knocked him senseless
with club and rau off with o cash box
containing $500. 1t Is feared Burgoine
will not recover.
The National Waterway Convention
opened yesterday ct Sault Ste. Marie,
Michigan. The Convention was called
to take action regarding the inadequacy
OF the Sault canal, (which IL sure TO be.
come soon too small for the commerce
Of the lakes
The Hurlburt Paper Company, Of
South Lee, Massach usetts, failed Wed
nesday. the business was 65 years old,
a'd conducted by q corporation until
1872, when it was changed to a partner.
ship. The mill property cost over $780,.
OOU
The Secretary of the Navy has deci.
ded to postpone until Septem ber 20 the
opening OF proposals to furnish steel
cast guns for the navy. This is done
Ito give more time to domestic manu-
facturers to consider the matter"
A freight train on the Pennsylvania
Railroad was thrown from the track At
Gordonville, Wednesday morning, by
the spreading Of the rails, and several
cars were wrecked. Three train men
were badly bruised In jumping from the
train.
| Near Terre Haute, Indiana, on Tues
| day afternoon, Andrew Williams and
Robert West were killed, and Robert
Williams was fatally Injured, by tree
falling on their wagon as they were re.
turning from funeral
While Jacob Smith and John Reilly
we're carrying o pot Of melted brass in
q foundry, in Cincinnati, Wednesday
afternoon, Reilly stumbled and the
metal few over both men, burning them
fatally.
William Fl. Laden on Wednesday at
TEN pied to kill his vile and mother In.
law, and then fatally shot himself, in
| New York. Both women are badly
wounded.
The turpentipe distillery of Hillyard
Good win, In Lexington County, South
Carolina, was burned on Tuesday night,
and Thomas Graffin and q colored la
borer perished in the flames.
Mr.. George W. Childs has promised q
new pulpit and q memorial window, in
memory OF General Grant, to st Paups
Methodist Episcopal Church, at Long
Island.
A bill imposing tax Of $4,000 on
wine rooms was Wednesday passed by
the Georgia House of Rspresen entatives
1t is thought tho Senate Will agree to
the bill.
Jacob Simon, q storekeeper ut Breaux
Bridge, Louisiana, was murdered In bed
on Tuesday night by burglars.
A Fairy Tale From tho West.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, July 20-A
novel sight was witnessed here yester
day rs the result OF the high tempera.
ture OF the past three weeks. Some
time ago Arm received = consignm' t
of eggs packed In boxes after the usual
manner. The eggs were placed in
storage, and yesterday morning the